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Kalinga Tattoo artist

Tattoo Research Leads Deeper into Filipino Culture

For Stella Gonzalez Kalinga-style tattoos are clues to pre-colonial heritage
Miller Library

Colby Receives $16-Million Gift to Advance Major Initiatives

Colby College today announced that it has received a $16-million gift from Trustee Marieke Rothschild P’16 and her husband, Jeff Rothschild P’16, in support of three of the College’s highest priorities: financial aid, the arts, and health and wellness.
Arts Collaborative building

Colby to Create New Arts Collaborative in Downtown Waterville

Major gift will turn buildings into a one-of-a-kind space for central Maine
Elizabeth Brashich '21 looks on as Bevin Engman shows her a specific color palette.

Q&A: Bevin Engman

On finding meaning and freedom in painting
An artist rendering of The Hub

Major Gift Creates a New Arts “Hub” For Waterville

Colby College has received a $1-million commitment from Mark W. Hubbert ’79 to name “The Hub,” a dynamic new space at the planned Paul J. Schupf Art Center on Main Street.
Teresa McKinney

Arts and Community Leader Named Diamond Family Director of the Arts

A leader in arts programming and community engagement at the Juilliard School in New York, Teresa D. McKinney, has been chosen after a national search to lead the development of an integrated arts experience between Colby and Waterville as the founding Diamond Family Director of the Arts. McKinney…
Maya Lin, Disappearing Bodies of Water: Arctic Ice (Detail), 2013. Vermont Danby marble on granite base (AP 1/1) 48 x 46 x 52 in. (121.92 x 116.84 x 132.08 cm) The Lunder Collection. © Maya Lin, courtesy Pace Gallery.

Climate Conversations—In Our Galleries

Encounters with Art Sharon CorwinCarolyn Muzzy Director and Chief Curator of the Colby College Museum of Art One day last spring, a group of students came to the Colby Museum of Art to study and discuss Maya Lin’s sculpture Disappearing Bodies of Water, Arctic Ice (2013). It was…
Lauren Bon, Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy. Glass neon, metal brackets, 72 x 174 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles.

A New Definition of American Art

With great fanfare, Colby announced the creation of the Lunder Institute for American Art in 2017. Established with a gift by Life Trustee Paula Crane Lunder, D.F.A. ’98 and Life Visitor Peter Lunder ’56, D.F.A. ’98, the institute was envisioned as a place for…
Students engage with guest performers during an interactive class within the Colby Museum of Art.

Diamond Family Funds New Position to Integrate the Arts at Colby College and in Waterville

Colby College is establishing the Diamond Family Director of the Arts to integrate new and emerging arts programming on campus and in the local community, further establishing Colby and Waterville as vibrant destinations for the arts.
Will Hochman ’14

Welcome to Broadway

The Sound Inside costar Will Hochman ’14 talks about chasing your dream—and ending up on stage with Mary-Louise Parker